Michael Jordan will be a "special contributor" to NBC's NBA coverage. Rich Eisen will return, maybe, to ESPN, which he left in 2003. Nostalgia reigns.

So when NBC Sports announced last week that Chris Mannix is joining its NBA coverage as an insider with an emphasis on digital, it brought back memories here of Peter Vecsey’s opinionated and ...

The back story as to why there will soon be additional options for watching sports is more complicated than simply NBC Sports needing more space for its growing portfolio of live events. There is a ...